Neuromuscular & Nervous Systems Terminology SB 2024

The inability to interpret information

• Agnosia

• Alexia

• Neologism

• Dysprosody

Impairment in the rhythm and inflection of speech

• Dysgraphia
• Dysphonia
• Dysprosody
• Dysarthria

A characteristic of a RIGHT HEMISPHERE infarct where there is an inability to control emotions and outburst of laughing or crying that are inconsistent with the situation

• Cerebellar ataxia
• Frontal lobe syndrome
• Temporal lobe epilepsy
• Pseudobulbar affect (PBA)
• Dysprosody

The inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks where the proprioceptive input necessary for movement is impaired

• Ideomotor apraxia

• Ideational apraxia

• Hemiplegia

Match the following

• Unilateral neglet

• Characteristic of expressive aphasia where speech is non-functional, effortful, and contains paraphasias. Writting is also impaired.

• Neologism

• Substitution within a word that is so severe that it makes the word unrecognizable.

• Synergy

• Mass movement patterns that are primitive in nature and coupled with spasticity due to brain damage.

• Non-fluent aphasia

• The state of repeatedly performing the same segment of a task or repeatedly saying the same word/phrase without purpose.

• Perseveration

• The inability to interpert stimuli and events on contralateral side of hemispheric lesion. Left-sided neglet is most common with a lesion to the right inferior partial or superior temporal lobes.

A condition where a person plans a movement or task but cannot volitionally perfom it. Automatic movement may occur; however, a person cannot impose additional movement on command.

• Ideomotor apraxia

• Ideational apraxia

• Hemiplegia

The loss of the right or left half of field of vision in both eyes

• Scotoma
• Bitemporal hemianopia
• Homonymous hemianopia

A condition of paralysis on one side of the body

• Hemiplegia

• Hemiparesis

A condition of weakness on one side of the body

• Hemiparesis

• Hemiplegia

Characteristic of RECEPTIVE APHASIA where speech produces functional output regarding articulation but lacks content and is typically dysprosodic using neologistic jargon

• Fluent aphasia

• Non-fluent aphasia

• Global aphasia